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December 27, 2011

While you're catching up with Friends With Boys over the holidays, you can also enter to win a copy of your very own over on GoodReads, where we're doing a give-away. We just got books in the office, and they look wonderful and lovely and you all should have copies of your very own!

(Probably in February, when the book actually comes out, but until then you can be excited!)

December 26, 2011

It is now officially the nondenominational winter holidays, and we have some time off, so hopefully you do, too!

We recommend that you use this time to catch up on one of our favorite webcomics, Faith Erin Hicks' Friends With Boys. Not only is it a delightful saga of ghosts and siblings and high school, we are going to be publishing it as a book at the end of February! Which is a thing we are excited about.

When tor.com, io9, and Wired all agree that something is good, you know it's worth checking out!

December 24, 2011

You all may remember a picture book (later turned into an animated short) called The Snowman -- written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs. It's a lovely and wonderful thing, and if you're in your twenties, you probably know it well (and may be re-reading or re-watching it for the holidays).

While thus enjoying yourself, you might also check out one of Briggs' other books: his biography of his parents, Ethel & Ernest. It's a quiet, lovely story about two people spending their lives together as the twentieth century unrolls itself around them. We recommend it.